Computes the "minimal work" distance between two weighted point configurations base on the papers "EMD-L1: An efficient and Robust Algorithm for comparing histogram-based descriptors", by Haibin Ling and Kazunori Okuda; and "The Earth Mover's Distance is the Mallows Distance: Some Insights from
Statistics", by Elizaveta Levina and Peter Bickel. More...

Computes the "minimal work" distance between two weighted point configurations base on the papers "EMD-L1: An efficient and Robust Algorithm for comparing histogram-based descriptors", by Haibin Ling and Kazunori Okuda; and "The Earth Mover's Distance is the Mallows Distance: Some Insights from
Statistics", by Elizaveta Levina and Peter Bickel.

Parameters

signature1

First signature, a single column floating-point matrix. Each row is the value of the histogram in each bin.